I sometimes laugh and shake my head at my own idiosyncrasies. Allow me to explain. A couple of weeks ago, my family and I saw AC/DC kick off their U.S. tour in Minneapolis. They were, as …

At Sauk Rapids-Rice High School, students aren’t just preparing to graduate, they are preparing for life beyond high school. Whether their journey after high school leads them to a two- or …

As spring peaks and the warmer weather draws near, we start thinking about all the items on our honey-do lists.   Home repairs and upgrades are necessary but can be costly. Benton Economic …

It is always the bagpipes that get me. That unique and mournful sound playing out “Amazing Grace” during services to honor a departed member of the law enforcement family brings a lump to …

The Minnesota Timberwolves did what they needed to do in Los Angeles. On April 25, they returned home for Game 3 of their first-round playoff series with the Los Angeles Lakers with the series …

Vanilla is not boring — though, for some unfortunate reason, Merriam Webster and contemporary society define it as “lacking distinction, plain, ordinary and conventional.” …

A younger reader wondered why people talk more about Christmas than Easter. I think it’s because Christmas runs to bigger money. Or maybe the reason is that we don’t trim Easter trees. …

“Crew”— meaning high-paying passengers — was a commonly observed social media comment this week when billionaire Jeff Bezos launched an all-female flight. Blue Origin is …

A friend once told me, “You can’t expect others to help you with the choices you’ve made.”   It took me a minute to process that, and then this fact jumped out at …

After a late-season surge where they won eight of their last nine games, the Minnesota Timberwolves clawed their way into sixth place in the cramped Western Conference standings. The Wolves finished …

I have been a terrible moviegoer all my life, but I think that is largely a genetic trait. My parents instilled in me a firm comfort with walking out of a theater at the first urge to do so during …

In 1922, a bulletin issued by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture predicted that women in agriculture — most of them wives of farmers — “would continue to be overworked and …